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crutchlow · How do I cheat? Reputation: 0 Joined: 04 May 2022 Posts: 5

Hello everyone, I use Cheat Engine to look at live memory values all the time, but I hope this is an acceptable question to ask by posting a screenshot from Ollydbg as it is easier to read.

This is code from a racing game. If your laptime is faster than the lap record, it writes it to an INI file which is then displayed in the Best Laps screen. In the screenshot, I have highlighted a key section of the code which shows how it is written in the INI file - "CarName = %Unix date% %lap time in seconds% ; Best lap time"

If I mess with this line at all, it breaks the code, and lap times are not written, however some other line of code is also wiping the Best Laps section of the INI file entirely. What I would like to do is allow reading of the player.ini file, but prevent writing OR deleting of the existing data.

Can anyone actually see anything in my code that I could NOP out to prevent that from happening?

atom0s · Posted: Thu May 05, 2022 1:50 am Post subject:

Based on how that code seems to function on a quick look, you may just want to jump over/skip that entire loop block since it looks like it's writing the section and entries for each valid entry.

From that dump, looks like you can patch the following line to be a full JMP and skip the entire thing:

crutchlow · How do I cheat? Reputation: 0 Joined: 04 May 2022 Posts: 5

crutchlow · How do I cheat? Reputation: 0 Joined: 04 May 2022 Posts: 5

I finally had a chance to do the above. Unfortunately it still wiped the original data.

TsTg · Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2022 9:36 pm Post subject:

does this routine do both writing and reading of the file ?
if it only writes the data, you can try: